Rlu 7 pd hearth topic 2 available nutritious foods and good caring practices en

Topic:

Nutritious foods and good caring practices in our village

Target Group: Mothers, Fathers and other caregivers PART 2:

Finding out what families do in the village / in our group to provide good nutrition and good caring practices to their children so that they grow well, strong and healthy.

Preparation and Materials: Markers, Flipchart paper, Small papers (A4 sheets cut into 6 pieces)

How to Make Graphic: “We want to find out good ways that you are caring for your children and providing good food even though you don’t have a lot of money to buy food. It is good for us to learn from each other so that others can also use the same good ideas.

“List some of the foods on small paper that you eat every day in this season.” As people think of something, draw or write it down in the big group on the small paper.

“Now, we know that children need to eat the following groups of foods” (on three big papers, draw or write a picture of each of the foods.

Vegetables and Fruit

Fish, Meat or Meat Substitutes (e.g. peanuts, soybeans, dried beans)

Grains (rice, corn, bread, noodles)

“Put each of the foods that you have written down into one of the groups.” (Place the cards down in each of the groups.)

“Are you getting some food in each of the food groups?”

“Which is the group that you have food missing? Which food group are you not getting enough of?”

“Are there any local foods that you find and eat that fit into these groups?” Add these new foods.

Put the food cards in the first column.

Ask the group, “how do you decide what foods are good to eat?”

E.g. cheap, find it locally (free), can make by self, easy to cook, healthy, tasty, easy to find, etc. (write or draw pictures if possible).

Put each of these in columns across the top.

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Then for each of the foods, have the group decide on a score out of 10 to give according to the criteria. E.g. if food is very cheap, then give 8 to 10 score.

Ideas for Discussion: What foods that are healthy, can be accessed by everyone (put stars next to these) Where can we get locally and cheap, good vegetables?

Where can we get, locally and cheap, good meat?

What are other foods that can be eaten instead of meat?

Why don’t we eat peanuts more? Where can we get peanuts? Can we give peanuts to our children when they want a snack? What age shouldn’t we give peanuts to our children?

How can we include more dried beans in our diet? They are a cheap form of protein (cheaper than meat).

Ideas for Action: Make plans to grow gardens so we can have more vegetables.

Make plans to go to collect vegetables, meat from the forest together.

Make plans to buy bulk items from the market (like peanuts and dried beans) to share.

For NERP session, what locally available food can we contribute – especially locally available protein.

Ideas for Literacy and Numeracy: Learn to read the word “beans.”

Compare the cost of eating fish compared with beef compared with chicken compared with the equivalent protein in peanuts and or mung beans. [note to sharyn – check nutrition tables].

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Sample Graphic: Fruit and Vegetables Cheap local

can grow

healthy tasty

easy to cook 6

trakuen

8

8

8

8

5

pumpkin

5

6

8

10

8

8

spay

5

7

5

8

8

8

Bamboo shoots

10

10

3

7

8

5

Make one chart for each of the food groups

Supplementary Information:

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